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2025: Books That Shape Perspective

New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- My editors have asked me to pen my thoughts on the books that have resonated with me in the course of the year. After excluding the ones shortlisted for the VoW Book Awards in the... Read More


Memory, Discipline and Growing Up

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- Much before Modern, DPS, Sanskriti, Sriram, Vasant Valley and IB schools marked their presence in the national capital, there was the one and only St Columba's, which opened its ... Read More


Martyrs, Mahatma and Media

New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- From the perspective of India's freedom movement, 1929 was a salient year: this marked the end of the 'conservative and constitutional era' of Motilal Nehru. The baton of the Con... Read More


Folklore from the Roof of India

New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- The repertoire of the 20 stories in Mona Verma's The Scent of Himalayas - Stories from the Mystical Mountains is drawn from Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, the Garhwal and Kum... Read More


Dialogues Across a Century

New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- The cover page of Makarand Paranjape's meditation on Hindutva and Hind Swaraj has a deep red background. Veer Savarkar, in a shade of saffron, points to the left, while Mahatma Ga... Read More


A Journey Beyond Runways

New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- Exploring the Amazing World of Aviation' by CISF veteran Shiv Kumar Mohanka is certainly India's (and perhaps the world's) most comprehensive cover-to-cover offering about anythin... Read More


Tears Behind Triumph

New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- Sudhir Vidyarthi's poignant offering of the stories in Bidai De Ma! (Bid me Farewell, Mother) is a recollection of the mothers and sisters of 13 revolutionaries who smiled their ... Read More